think you already know what the speaker wants to say‚ before she actually finishes saying it. You might then impatiently cut her off or try to complete the sentence for her. Even more disruptive is interrupting her by saying that you disagree with her‚ but without letting her finish saying what it is that you think you disagree with. That’s a common problem when a discussion gets heated‚ and which causes the discussion to degrade quickly. By interrupting the speaker before letting her finish‚ you’re
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Fires of Destruction (word count: 1‚245) In the poem “Nighttime Fires” the speaker of the poem is remembering the speaker father’s wild obsession with burning houses at night and how the speaker had to go with the father to these burning houses with the family. The father is a casualty of the rough economy and this anger toward his bad luck is the reason he loves seeing these macabre scenes. The speaker in “Nighttime Fires” vividly illustrates the lasting impression that the fires and his father’s
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personification‚ and colorful imagery develops a speaker and a character that demonstrates affection for the quilt’s qualities and reveals a more complex underlying message about the quilt’s impact on how the speaker perceives her life and family. The author employs imagery throughout the poem by pairing vivid colors with other characters and figures to contribute to a more complex meaning. This visual imagery is found in line 3 when the speaker described
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engage the visitor’s interest. C lack artistic originality. 2 Extract Three You hear a woman talking on the radio about her favourite piece of music. 5 How does the speaker say she feels when listening to her favourite piece of music? A B nostalgic C 6 engrossed inspired The speaker believes that critics of her favourite music are wrong to A doubt the level of its popularity. B disregard the composer’s skills. C underrate it for its wide appeal
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we go along the poem. The manner in which the speaker initially views the filling station with disgust is clearly shown in the opening stanza of the poem. However‚ this changes as we go along the poem. The speaker becomes less judgmental and more objective. She initially finds only disorder in the filling station; however‚ as we go along the poem‚ she realizes that the order outweighs the disorder. Hence‚ I will show how the personality of the speaker changes as the poem progresses‚ and how his viewpoint
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Speaker in poetry Christen Borgersrode I chose to write about “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. This poem was a touching memory as the speaker looked back on how he never thanked his father for all he did on those chilly Sunday mornings. In lines one through five the speaker talks about how the father would always get up in the early morning‚ in the “blueblack cold”‚ and get a fire started to warm the house after working hard that previous week. This shows that the father worked hard
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Miguel J. Merriweather Phyllis Steward English 2003- World Literature I Diagnostic Essay August 29‚ 2011 The overall attitude I receive from the poem is that the speaker is having a moment to retrospect to the father. Reliving the times where the father would come home from a bar after a long day’s work to a child‚ staying up past normal bedtime anticipating his/her father’s return‚ eager to engage in good nature fun before both retired off to bed. The first stanza demonstrates the excitement
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Whenever it is time to prepare for a speech in class the first thing I think about is how I can connect with the audience. I do this first because I feel that any audience member should feel a connection between them and the speaker whether or not they agree or disagree with the speaker. And the way I display this connection with the audience is through the types of immediacy such as verbal immediacy‚ nonverbal immediacy‚ technological influences on immediacy‚ and cultural influences on immediacy. In
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In Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Facing It‚” the speaker encounters his grief at the Vietnam Memorial‚ undergoing confusing emotions from his experience of grief and loss at the war‚ but later realizes there is joy and harmony in living‚ appreciating the value of his own life [PrPP]. The first half of the poem demonstrates the speaker’s despair and confusion by visiting and reflecting on the wall from the memorial‚ the wall visually and physically representing the loss of his comrades. The poem opens with
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In the poem the speaker is insisting that he and his comrades are being attacked and they know that they are not going to make it out alive. Since the speaker and his allies know that their demise is definite‚ they want to die fighting with honor and like men. Mckay uses a variety of literary forms when writing this poem. Three of his literary devices he used in “ If we must die” are theme‚ imagery and form. The themes of “ If We Must Die” is honor‚ nobility and bravery. The speaker knows that he and
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